Mission: Impossible franchise continues to thrive with Tom Cruise's daring stunts and impressive box office success, grossing billions worldwide.

Impossible took four films to fully establish its franchise must-have: the ever more blurred lines between its death-defying, stunt-loving star, Tom Cruise, and the superspy he plays. For more than a decade,

As I pointed out in our Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning review, that sort of reverence is also present in director Christopher McQuarrie ’s current box office hit. Short of watching all of the prior films with a Paramount+ subscription, this is one of the best sequels to use as an introductory point to new fans.

Being a spy is like watching paint dry. And they don’t have to be in the best shape. The tooth capsule thing? Real. A former spy tells us what Tom Cruise gets right and wrong in the franchise.

The epic saga of Tom Cruise running through fields, over roofs, and down streets has come to a close. Here’s how the eight films stack up, from Mission: Inert to Mission: Incredible

Angela Bassett made history as the first woman to ever deliver a mission briefing in the "Mission: Impossible" film franchise with her scene in "The Final Reckoning" "That came to me late," Bassett, who plays President Erika Sloane,

Creating Tom Cruise’s pivotal scene for “The Final Reckoning,” required months of grit, G-force training and a little hypothermia.

In the new installment of Tom Cruise’s action film series, “ Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning ,” a godlike AI called the Entity has the world on the brink of a nuclear apocalypse, and a doomsday cult is rooting for the AI. (Spoiler alert: Cruise saves everyone.)

Tying into Benji’s “God/Anti-God” talk from Mission: Impossible III, these two men would have been a more fitting threat than the still mysterious Gabriel (Esai Morales) - a man who’d rather die in a sick mid-air action sequence than give us his backstory.

Hayley Atwell spoke to the press ahead of the release of ‘Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning’ and revealed her favorite film from the iconic actor.